Video Cheese: La Llorona (1933)
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Video Cheese: La Llorona (1933)

British boutique Blu Ray company Indicator has really appeared on my radar recently. This is mostly because they’ve started to release American (i.e., Region 1) editions of their wares. Recently I invested in their slick box set of the first two El Santos movies. Then there was Mexican Macabre, a collection of some of…
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Bowery at Midnight (1942)
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Bowery at Midnight (1942)

Although not as much fun as such other Bela Lugosi poverty row features as Devil Bat or The Invisible Ghost, Bowery at Midnight provides a decent amount of entertainment over its spare hour-long run time. Aside from Bela, the only other really notable names are actor Tom Neal, star of Edger Ulmer’s fatalistic Noir…
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Video Cheese: Warning from Space (1956)
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Video Cheese: Warning from Space (1956)

When I started watching my recently purchased Blu Ray for this film, I realized I had never seen it before. The lack of giant monsters and slow pacing probably kept it off American syndicated television. I know it didn’t play much or at all on broadcast TV when I was a youngster and ravenously…
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Video Cheese: Curse of the Undead (1959)
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Video Cheese: Curse of the Undead (1959)

Curse of the Undead falls squarely into that familiar ‘things you want to like more than you do’ territory. It’s not bad, but it’s certainly not great either. As a very early example of a weird western, you want to enjoy it just for the novelty of the thing. Not to mention it’s a…
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Video Cheese: Innocent Bystanders (1972)
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Video Cheese: Innocent Bystanders (1972)

I found a site called Hamilton Book, which apparently is an aftermarket book and blu ray/DVD retailer. They had a number of blu rays on sale pretty cheap, and some where cheap enough—like $5 a throw—that I took a flyer on some of them. This is one of those. It’s an Olive Blu Ray,…
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Video Cheese: The Ape (1940)
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Video Cheese: The Ape (1940)

Perhaps due to my recent trip to Texas, where I actually watched *gasp* films instead of anime (or anime films), I actually broke down and watched one of the zillions of Blu Rays/DVDs I keep buying. In this case, it was Kino Lorber’s Blu Ray of The Ape. I should note that although the…
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Rock Baker’s Video Cheese: The Liberace Christmas Special, 1954
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Rock Baker’s Video Cheese: The Liberace Christmas Special, 1954

"The most flamboyant entertainer of the 50's celebrates the Christmas season." Okay, just sticking to how he was viewed in the 1950's, Liberace was something of an odd duck. His sighing voice, curly hair, and constant grin made him a perfect subject of parody.  His show, live or on television, was peculiar, too. Constantly…
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Rock Baker’s Video Cheese: The Monsters Demolisher (1960)
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Rock Baker’s Video Cheese: The Monsters Demolisher (1960)

"The continued adventures of Nostradamus the Vampire." Needless to say, Nostradamus didn't stay buried for long, although there's no indication how much time passes between chapters. We open with some kids skipping school (which doesn't let out til after dark, it seems) discovering and creeping into the castle of Nostradamus. They're chased out by…
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Rock Baker’s Video Cheese: The Thirsty Dead (1975)
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Rock Baker’s Video Cheese: The Thirsty Dead (1975)

"What would you do if, to live forever, you had to drain others of their lives?" Actually, a better title for this Filipino adventure movie would have been 'The Deadly Thirst.' Some might recall a 1960 Universal International effort called The Leech Woman, about a woman who discovers a means of restoring beauty and…
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Rock Baker’s Video Cheese: It’s in the Bag (1945)
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Rock Baker’s Video Cheese: It’s in the Bag (1945)

"A flea circus owner inherits a fortune, with complications." Jack Benny and Fred Allen were, in reality, good friends who toiled together in Vaudeville. Each went on to become among the Nation's top comics in radio, where their characters engaged in a long-running feud. Allen would make a dig at Benny on his Ipana…
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